Latest Bipoc travelers Podcast Episodes
White Women of #Vanlife, We Need to Talk
Nomads at the Intersections - June 12, 2020 07:18 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsThe truth is this: as white women on the road, we’ve taken up a lot of space within the #vanlife movement. And it’s long past time to unpack how white women’s presence in popular road travel negatively impacts the Black traveler community. So in this episode, we spend some dedicated time address...
Expect the Unexpected: Alexandra Keeling
Nomads at the Intersections - June 05, 2020 07:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsRoad travel can take many forms. And Alexandra Keeling knows this better than most-- because she's done a lot of them. From RV life, to towing a small trailer, to sleeping out of the back of a car, Alex's journeys on the road so far have shown that no matter how you travel, it all counts. Becaus...
Navigating Responsible Travel During COVID-19
Nomads at the Intersections - May 29, 2020 06:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsCan we hit the road responsibly during a pandemic? As someone planning to car camp or take a drive into the wilderness, you might not feel like you alone could make a huge impact on this pandemic-- but the reality is that travel can lead to transmission-- which means that travelers have the capa...
Change of Plans: Skyler Thomas
Nomads at the Intersections - May 22, 2020 06:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsSkyler Thomas is good at working with a change of plans. In fact, it’s something that she’s navigated time and time again-- right up to present day as she pivoted the direction of her business, SugarSky, amid pandemic-related public health concerns. But whether it’s founding her company, embraci...
My Mom’s 3,000 Mile Drive: Jackie Hughes
Nomads at the Intersections - May 08, 2020 06:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsThis episode honors the mom figures in our lives who inspire or encourage dreams of road travel by paying tribute to one mom in particular: our host Laura Borichevsky’s mom, Jackie Hughes. Before #vanlife… before Instagram… before she could even drive: Laura’s belief in her ability to do road t...
A (Road) Trip Down Memory Lane
Nomads at the Intersections - May 01, 2020 06:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsIn this episode, we asked you to share your favorite road travel stories. The landscapes, destinations, trials, and motivations, like this community, are wide-ranging-- from reminders of your own strength and resilience, to particularly sweet memories with loved ones, to formative times you’re h...
Foraging, Family, & Fixing Your Vehicle: Amanda Shale
Nomads at the Intersections - April 24, 2020 06:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsSelf-sufficiency is always an important set of skills to hone-- in life, and especially on the road. But even the most independently-minded travelers require community and resources to learn and grow. That’s why Amanda Shale joins this episode to talk about how over the years she’s learned the e...
The Search for Alice: Britany Freeman
Nomads at the Intersections - April 17, 2020 06:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsBritany Freeman’s had a problem for a few years. She wanted this one van. And not just one kind of van. But this one van, which she named Alice years before it was even hers. Alice has slipped through Britany’s fingers more than a couple times, and through it all, she could easily have given up....
Pushing Through: Becca Foss
Nomads at the Intersections - April 10, 2020 06:27 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsBecca Foss, long-term road traveler and outdoor guide, knows firsthand through the loss of her husband that sometimes you just have to find ways to push yourself through. It might be climbing a steep hill on a loaded up bike, sending a rock wall, or facing unexpected tragedy and learning how to ...
You're Doing Your Best: Grizel Williams
Nomads at the Intersections - April 03, 2020 06:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsMental health is something we've talked about before on the show, but never before has it felt more important to dive in. That's why this week, we took some time to focus on what challenges, resources, and tips this community has and needs. Whether you're a full-time traveler and your shelter is...
We Can Still Find Beauty: Giddi Oteo
Nomads at the Intersections - March 27, 2020 06:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsGiddi Oteo, former full-time road traveler, has an inherent knack for holding both the real, transparent truth and the beauty around her. You’ll hear it from her as she shares about pregnancy and motherhood on the road, starting her travels with nearly no money, and building a business from scra...
COVID-19 and Travel
Nomads at the Intersections - March 17, 2020 19:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsA timely episode for travelers out there wondering about what decisions to make in light of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has caused a global pandemic in recent weeks. Through the voices of two experts-- Registered Nurse Emily Scott and public health emergency planner Kate Pifer-- we navi...
Driving New Chapters: Brittany Newson
Nomads at the Intersections - March 06, 2020 07:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsBrittany Newson, an Air Force veteran, current student, and recently married female traveler knows that the road can be an incredible facilitator of new life chapters. But she also helps us to see in this episode that travel on its own doesn’t create the changes for us: it’s what we do with it w...
Love Stories from the Road
Nomads at the Intersections - February 21, 2020 07:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsWe usually aim to show the sides of road travel that aren’t over-romanticized, but for this episode we wanted to gush a little. So we asked for voice submissions while we were off the air, with one simple intention: tell us your love stories. And wow-- did you all deliver! So in this episode, we...
We're back next week-- and we're introducing "Dying for Sex", a Wondery podcast!
Nomads at the Intersections - February 14, 2020 07:05 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsHey all! We’re excited to let you know that we’re returning for our kick off of the 2020 season of Women on the Road next Friday, February 21st. It’s been a long break and we are so excited to get back to sharing your stories about and from the road. To tide you over in the meantime, w...
Just What the Travel Nurse Ordered: Em Cheng
Nomads at the Intersections - December 13, 2019 07:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsTravel nursing is an incredible career that enables you to both help others and get to see new places. But just like any job or form of travel, there are always aspects that can get over-romanticized, and travel nursing is no exception. Em Cheng, a travel nurse currently exploring the West Coast...
Finding Family
Nomads at the Intersections - November 29, 2019 02:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsWhether it’s for the holidays you celebrate, the time you spend reflecting, or the gifts you exchange out of love or habit-- the year’s end is full of reminders of family. And family is complicated for a lot of us out there, especially when travel is also a big part of our lives. We know that t...
Dream Big, Plan Small: Veronica Castillo
Nomads at the Intersections - November 22, 2019 04:06 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsChoosing to move into a campervan doesn’t come without making plans. Just ask Veronica Castillo, who lives in a 2018 Dodge Promaster with her husband Miguel while working full-time at stationary jobs. With popular travel media prescribing why people live on the road, Veronica digs into the reali...
Chasing Down Her Fears: Aubrey Hancock
Nomads at the Intersections - November 15, 2019 04:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsSolo traveler Aubrey Hancock is intimately familiar with her fears. And as you’ll hear, there’s a lot wrapped up inside those feelings. It’s all human, and it’s all valid to feel this way. But Aubrey knew, even at a time she was the most vulnerable and scared, that expanding her horizons would b...
Greetings from the Desert: WOTR Campout
Nomads at the Intersections - November 08, 2019 07:03 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsWe heard a lot of insights, new experiences, and beautiful sentiments the weekend of the Women on the Road Campout last month— and if you know us, you know we couldn’t keep it all to ourselves, so we wanted to share a piece of the experience with you. That’s exactly why our team took a mic arou...
Standing in Her Power: Anaïs Moniq
Nomads at the Intersections - November 01, 2019 05:13 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsAnaïs Moniq is a flight attendant and is currently on the path to completing her own converted camper van from a step truck. But be it in the air or on the road-- from DEI to the business of natural beauty to standing in her own power-- she’s following her passions at every turn. Othe...
Standing in Her Power: Anaïs Monique
Nomads at the Intersections - November 01, 2019 05:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsAnaïs Monique is a flight attendant and is currently on the path to completing her own converted camper van from a step truck. But be it in the air or on the road-- from DEI to the business of natural beauty to standing in her own power-- she’s following her passions at every turn. Other resou...
The Happy Lands: Carrie Starbuck
Nomads at the Intersections - October 25, 2019 03:39 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsCarrie Starbuck is on a mission-- a research mission-- to uncover what makes communities happy. And she’s starting in a place a lot of us wouldn’t expect a solo female road traveler to begin. She’s starting with dissecting masculinity in different countries. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why C...
Introducing from Wondery: Bad Batch!
Nomads at the Intersections - October 25, 2019 03:23 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsIn Wondery's new series Bad Batch, host Laura Beil (Dr. Death) investigates the multi-billion dollar underregulated industry of stem cell therapy where greed and desperation collide. When a group of patients wind up in a Texas hospital in critical condition, the trail leads back to one ...
Small Gestures: Maggie Lam
Nomads at the Intersections - October 18, 2019 01:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsWhen we first connected with part-time van traveler Maggie Lam, it was about a post she had written and we reshared on social media. And it was about small gestures Maggie has experienced during her travels, why they you might not know that they are in fact microaggressions, and why representati...
Solo Travel on 4 Wheels: Sylvia Longmire
Nomads at the Intersections - September 26, 2019 12:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsSylvia Longmire is a writer, Air Force Veteran, mother of two boys, longtime world adventurer, and recently became a wheelchair user. To date, Sylvia has visited 54 countries, 43 of those as a wheelchair user and 34 of those by herself. Sylvia uses her talent for writing to share resources with ...
Lead From Behind: Summer Michaud-Skog
Nomads at the Intersections - September 20, 2019 05:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsSummer Michaud-Skog, founder of Fat Girls Hiking and full-time road traveler, knows firsthand about what it takes to support a community where inclusion is the priority. And in a time where conversations around DEI are breaking open on the road and in the outdoors, her voice and thoughts about l...
Her Own Commander: Jessy Muller
Nomads at the Intersections - September 13, 2019 07:37 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsIt won’t take long for you to realize that Jessy Muller likes to do things on her own terms. That’s why, when she was ready to adopt a more mobile lifestyle in October of 2017, she found a vintage 1978 Commander motorhome and moved her and her two cats right in, which kicked off not only an adve...
Where the Road Forks: Kristin Holden
Nomads at the Intersections - September 06, 2019 04:11 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsThere will always be reasons not to hit the road, but if you ask solo traveler Kristin Holden, she’d tell you that wanting to travel is enough, and there’s no reason to stop yourself from living your dreams-- even if nobody else is ready to go with you. From self love talk to long distance rela...
To Feel Everything: Sloane Thomas
Nomads at the Intersections - August 30, 2019 05:02 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsYou’ll hear this from the start, but Sloane Thomas is full of purpose when it comes to this chapter of her life. A sober solo traveler, long-distance runner, and lover of the outdoors, Sloane took off in her van earlier this year after a challenging life chapter gave her every reason to fully em...
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